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Top honor goes to experts in drug development, diabetes, obesity, neuroscience and genetics.

Six Yale researchers, five from the School of Medicine and one from the School of Nursing, were elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies in October. Their election brings the number of Yale scholars in the IOM to 37, including two at the School of Management and one at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

“It
is
unprecedented
in
recent
memory
that
so
many
from
our
institution
have...

At
the
end
of
World
War
II,
Nicholas
P.R.
Spinelli,
M.D.
’44,
took
leave
from
his
Army
unit
in
Germany
and
hitched
a
ride
on
a
cargo
plane
to
Rome.
From
there
he
traveled
to
Faeto,
a
village
in
southern
Italy
overlooking
the
Adriatic
Sea
that
his
parents
had
left
30
years
earlier,
where
the
villagers
celebrated
the
arrival
of
their
native
son.
“I
was
there
for
three
nights,”
Spinelli
said.
“I
had
to
make
rounds
and...